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Quotes About Equality

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.
~ Josefina Vázquez Mota
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
~ Carter G. Woodson
I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
~ Chuck Berry
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
~ Abigail Scott Duniway
Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.
~ Gough Whitlam
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
~ Frederick Douglass
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There is room in history for all of us.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
~ Booker T. Washington
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
~ Angela Davis
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
~ Mike Rounds
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.
~ John Betjeman
Where the women go, the culture goes.
~ Phylicia Rashad
God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.
~ Huston Smith
Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.
~ Dorothy Cotton
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
~ Barack Obama